A town has 100 homes in it. According to a census, the actual distribution of pets in these homes gives a median of 0.8 pets and a mode of 1 pet. A student surveys 10 of these homes and finds nearly identical data: a median of 0.7 pets per home with a mode of 1. The student’s small survey gives nearly the same results as the much larger census because the A) town itself is very small. B) student simply got lucky. C) variation in the number of pets per house is small. D) student’s sample has wide variations in the number of pets.

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A town has 100 homes in it. According to a census, the actual distribution of pets in these homes gives a median of 0.8 pets and a mode of 1 pet. A student surveys 10 of these homes and finds nearly identical data: a median of 0.7 pets per home with a mode of 1. The student’s small survey gives nearly the same results as the much larger census because the A) town itself is very small.	 B) student simply got lucky.	 C) variation in the number of pets per house is small.	 D) student’s sample has wide variations in the number of pets.